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by Mark Silva Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh is viewed as a possible do-no-harm running mate for Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. But the corporate work that Bayh's wife has done could be cause for doubts in the running-mate vetting department.......

Monday: Earnings: Lawson Software Inc., Immucor Inc. Tuesday: November consumer credit Earnings: Safeway Inc., SuperValu Inc., Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc. Wednesday: Weekly mortgage applications Earnings: Alcoa Inc....

Randy Michaels, a veteran broadcasting executive with long-term ties to Sam Zell, will play an important role at Tribune Co. after Zell, as expected, takes over as chairman this week, people close to the company said Wednesday. Michaels' is the first...

The Chicago morning radio landscape Steve Dahl re-enters Monday, when he moves his show from afternoons on CBS Radio's WCKG-FM 105.9 to the 5:30-to-10 a.m. shift on sister station WJMK-FM 104.3, isn't that different from the one he exited 11 years ago,...

What kind of a news baron would Sam Zell make? With Tribune Co. seriously considering the Chicago real estate billionaire's buyout offer, it's no idle question. Besides amassing the nation's largest collection of office buildings in his Equity Office...

MUCH OF THE criticism of commercial rap music — that it's homophobic and sexist and celebrates violence — is well-founded. But most of the carping we've heard against hip-hop in the wake of the Don Imus affair is more scapegoating than...

Hot 97's tsunami song has sunk two station employees. Morning personality Todd Lynn and producer Rick Delgado were fired yesterday for "displaying gross insensitivity and making offensive remarks," according to a statement from Emmis Communications,...

Bowing to pressure from an Asian community group, Newsday is pulling its advertising from the controversial morning show on hip-hop radio station Hot 97. The decision was announced late Thursday after Asian Media Watchdog threatened to protest outside...

When Hot 97's landlord began eviction proceedings earlier this month, the influential hip-hop station didn't keep it quiet, as most businesses would. It turned it into a promotion. The station began running a promotion joking that since its landlord...

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said Wednesday he has subpoenaed many of the nation's largest radio conglomerates in his "payola" investigation of major artists and songs that he claims got air time because of payoffs by recording companies....

Hot 97 radio and morning personality Miss Jones are under fire for airing a racially charged parody song that City Council members yesterday said mocked tsunami victims and Asians. Despite on-air apologies from Jones and the station yesterday, council...

ABC Radio Networks and New York City station WRKS-FM 98.7 KISS-FM R&B Hits have signed an agreement to broadcast The Tom Joyner Morning Show on the FM station. The leading national urban morning show with an audience of more than 8 million, The Tom Joyner...